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Showing posts with label Mothering the Tongue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mothering the Tongue. Show all posts
Aug 29, 2015

Puss 'n' Boots language

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A while back I used the word "lovely" in a conversation among two or three close friends. One of them took me gently to task for g...
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Aug 9, 2015

Trump

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It's not easy to write seriously about this guy, especially if you think he is performing a useful role in American political discourse....
Apr 20, 2015

George Will and the Great Raisin Raid

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Over four long years, Marv and Laura grew abut 500 tons of raisins out in California. By government reckoning, that's about $700,000 dol...
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Jun 6, 2014

The Longest Wind

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Good Lord. Can it be that long since President Obama first showed his arse to the world in a D-Day speech? He's still fumbling for his...
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Mar 21, 2014

Thirty Seconds More than Tokyo

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Headline: AP Stylebook Takes a Dive; Facebook Furor Ensues The Stylebook, one of America's traditional bulwarks against flabby couch-p...
Mar 12, 2014

What's the frequency, Kenneth? (More bizarre than...)

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This does not bode well . A trigger-lock company trying to buy Remington? Aside from writing like a bunch of long-winded nerds... (...
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Apr 15, 2013

A Monday Morning Mash

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1. My friend John in ultra-urban Arizona spent hours looking for .22 Shorts for his friend who owns a Beretta Minx. This crap has been going...
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Jan 26, 2013

H.L. Mencken on Gun (and everything else) Control

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Each year about this time,  the Moon of the Shrunken Scrotum, I tend to stay  in my lodge,  near the fire, and spend time with the old writi...

Gun Control and Language Control

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Another parallelism, further demonstrating the increasing uselessness of the English language as a tool for expressing logical thought proce...
Jan 19, 2013

Milspeak

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We're sending a company of National Guard troops to Afghanistan. A helpful public relations officer told us what they'll be doing t...
Jan 7, 2013

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It doesn't bother me much that fresh-hatched Senator Tammy Baldwin is gay, purportedly the first and only openly gay U.S. senator. It...
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Oct 29, 2012

Just maybe some piddly little Sandy deaths

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I know a lot of Virginians,  and they don't talk this way. Just the politicians. "...  no injuries so far and no fatalities of an...
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Sep 17, 2012

How much does a Kwee cost?

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"Quantitative Easing" -- or "QE" -- my butt.  The Fed loves the locution because it rings of careful policy crafted by t...
Sep 6, 2012

Softly, softly, cache monkey

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The AP is carrying a rambling but interesting review of Asian monkeyshines. It concentrates on squabbles about which nations own which gua...
Sep 5, 2012

Paging Ed Newman

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How 'bout that? You can buy a gizmo to charge your telephone with tiny little pieces of wood, but "wood" is not good enough fo...
Jul 23, 2012

Why we're broke, except for Utah

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If Utaht you saw the national MasterCard go a little more over limit recently, you were right. It somehow came to the attention of the Nat...
Jun 22, 2012

Ruger? Seriously??

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It's nice that a gun maker made the market headlines yesterday by bucking the big Dow loss. But to call Southport a maker of "durab...
Mar 15, 2012

Language note

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Pink slime is repulsive stuff they put in hamburger. It is not the  MSNBC prime-time team. But if you insist I'll try to be tolerant...
Mar 6, 2012

Have you heard the one about squawberry shortcake?

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Every time this claptrap about offensive place names hits the press I recall a jingle in one of the old Boy Scout handbooks. How to make a f...
Jul 22, 2011

Unarguable

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On MSNBC this morning a talking head said it would be hot in Washington. How hot would it be? "It will be the hottest morning of the ...